CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2014-7155

First published: Thu Oct 02 2014(Updated: )

The x86_emulate function in arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly check supervisor mode permissions, which allows local HVM users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) or gain guest kernel mode privileges via vectors involving an (1) HLT, (2) LGDT, (3) LIDT, or (4) LMSW instruction.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Xen Xen<=4.4.0
Xen Xen=3.0.2
Xen Xen=3.0.3
Xen Xen=3.0.4
Xen Xen=3.1.3
Xen Xen=3.1.4
Xen Xen=3.2.0
Xen Xen=3.2.1
Xen Xen=3.2.2
Xen Xen=3.2.3
Xen Xen=3.3.0
Xen Xen=3.3.1
Xen Xen=3.3.2
Xen Xen=3.4.0
Xen Xen=3.4.1
Xen Xen=3.4.2
Xen Xen=3.4.3
Xen Xen=3.4.4
Xen Xen=4.0.0
Xen Xen=4.0.1
Xen Xen=4.0.2
Xen Xen=4.0.3
Xen Xen=4.0.4
Xen Xen=4.1.0
Xen Xen=4.1.1
Xen Xen=4.1.2
Xen Xen=4.1.3
Xen Xen=4.1.4
Xen Xen=4.1.5
Xen Xen=4.1.6.1
Xen Xen=4.2.0
Xen Xen=4.2.1
Xen Xen=4.2.2
Xen Xen=4.2.3
Xen Xen=4.3.0
Xen Xen=4.3.1
Xen Xen=4.4.0
Xen Xen=4.4.0-rc1
Debian Debian Linux=7.0
Fedoraproject Fedora=19
Fedoraproject Fedora=20
openSUSE openSUSE=12.3
openSUSE openSUSE=13.1

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